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mkcert
mkcert is a simple tool for making locally-trusted development certificates. There is no configuration.
$ mkcert -install
Created a new local CA at "/Users/filippo/Library/Application Support/mkcert" 💥
The local CA is now installed in the system trust store! ⚡️
$ mkcert example.com myapp.dev localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1
Using the local CA at "/Users/filippo/Library/Application Support/mkcert" ✨
Created a new certificate valid for the following names 📜
- "example.com"
- "myapp.dev"
- "localhost"
- "127.0.0.1"
- "::1"
The certificate is at "./example.com+4.pem" and the key at "./example.com+4-key.pem" ✅
Using certificates from real CAs for development can be dangerous or impossible (for hosts like localhost or 127.0.0.1), but self-signed certificates cause trust errors. Managing your own CA is the best solution, but usually involves arcane commands, specialized knowledge and manual steps.
mkcert automatically creates and installs a local CA in the system root store, and generates locally-trusted certificates.
Installation
On macOS, use Homebrew.
brew install --HEAD FiloSottile/mkcert/mkcert
On Linux, use the pre-built binaries, or build from source.
$ git clone https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
$ cd mkcert && make
Windows will be supported soon.
Changing the location of the CA files
TODO
Installing the CA on other computers
TODO
Remember that mkcert is meant for development purposes, not production, so it should not be used on users' machines.
This is not an official Google project, just some code that happens to be owned by Google.